The best American essays 2020 /
The best American essays 2020 /
edited and with an introduction by André Aciman ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- xxxii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
- The best American series. .
- Best American series. .
Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literary nonfiction of 2019.
Includes bibliographical references.
How to bartend / Ghost museum / Driving as metaphor / The humanoid stain / After the three-moon era / Cosmic latte / A street full of splendid strangers / A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Maly Trostinets / Body language / A thing about cancer / The other Leopold / To grieve is to carry another time / 77 Sunset me / Under the sign of Susan / Semantic drift / Ode al vento occidentale / Holiday review / My pink lake and other digressions / Bed / Breathe / The unfound door / Soul-error / Was Shakespeare a woman? / Rabih Alameddine -- Elvis Bego -- Rachel Cusk -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Gary Fincke -- Ron Huett -- Leslie Jamison -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Joseph Leo Koerner -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich -- Clinton Crockett Peters -- Susan Fox Rogers -- Matthew Salesses -- Peter Schjeldahl -- A.O. Scott -- Lionel Shriver -- Mark Sullivan -- Mark Sundeen -- Alison Townsend -- David L. Ulin -- Jerald Walker -- Stephanie Powell Watts -- Philip Weinstein -- Elizabeth Winkler.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
9780358359913 0358359910
2000-2099
American essays--21st century.
American essays.
Essays.
Essays.
Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literary nonfiction of 2019.
Includes bibliographical references.
How to bartend / Ghost museum / Driving as metaphor / The humanoid stain / After the three-moon era / Cosmic latte / A street full of splendid strangers / A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Maly Trostinets / Body language / A thing about cancer / The other Leopold / To grieve is to carry another time / 77 Sunset me / Under the sign of Susan / Semantic drift / Ode al vento occidentale / Holiday review / My pink lake and other digressions / Bed / Breathe / The unfound door / Soul-error / Was Shakespeare a woman? / Rabih Alameddine -- Elvis Bego -- Rachel Cusk -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Gary Fincke -- Ron Huett -- Leslie Jamison -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Joseph Leo Koerner -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich -- Clinton Crockett Peters -- Susan Fox Rogers -- Matthew Salesses -- Peter Schjeldahl -- A.O. Scott -- Lionel Shriver -- Mark Sullivan -- Mark Sundeen -- Alison Townsend -- David L. Ulin -- Jerald Walker -- Stephanie Powell Watts -- Philip Weinstein -- Elizabeth Winkler.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
9780358359913 0358359910
2000-2099
American essays--21st century.
American essays.
Essays.
Essays.